Software As She’s Developed

Andrew Sutherland offers a few Ajax Gotchas/Tips. I’ll add some comments. Escape content with encodeURIComponent() which is superior to escape. XMLHttpRequest’s readyState tells you how far the request has progressed. MM: If you’re confused about readyState’s transition from 0 to 4, you have good reason to be. Read the recent posting and comments on David Flanagan’s blog, and […]

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I’ve noticed that I’ve recently habitualised the Yellow Fade Technique, or what the Ajax patterns refer to as One-Second Spotlight. The typical Fade example is a form field. When you change it, the field is suddenly highlighted, then gradually fades back to its original form. This tells the user that “the computer” knows something’s happened, and […]

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Dave Crane looks into some Scriptaculous code. The main point is that Scriptaculous is easy for novice JS programmers to use, but the source code would be difficult, for novices at least, to understand. Which raises these questions: So, going back to the bigger picture, here’s something for the authors of JavaScript libraries to […]

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Ajax, AjaxPatterns, DHTML, Gaming, Patterns, Web Super Maryo Bros in pure Javascript - check it out! Just like DHTML Lemmings, only Japanese and based on a game I was once much more obsessed with! Quick pattern mining: The dominant pattern in any Ajaxian arcade game is Sprite. Some cute use of Popup on the initial page. I […]

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